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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1512 b

This world receives 1.6× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.4 days; the light you see left it 528 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
20.4 days0.137 AU
Temperature
49 °C322 K

About this world

Kepler-1512 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-1512, an orange dwarf 528 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20.4 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 322 K (49 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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